Where's The Toughest Place To Play In College Basketball?

EA SPORTS today launched a contest
to choose one NCAA school’s home venue the “Toughest Place to Play” in college
basketball. Fans of the EA SPORTS videogame NCAA Basketball 09 can visit
http://www.easports.com/ncaabasketball/toughvenues.action now to vote
for their school from among 50 schools entered in the contest. Ten finalists
will be selected from fan voting before a winner will be crowned and that school
featured in next year’s videogame. In addition, a full playable demo of NCAA
Basketball 09 is available for download beginning November 6 at the PLAYSTATION
Store and Xbox Live Marketplace.

NCAA Basketball 09 will be in stores
beginning Nov. 19 for the PLAYSTATION3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation2.

The NCAA Basketball 09 demo,
featuring the University of Tennessee, University of Kentucky, the 1979 Michigan
State Spartans and the 1982 University of North Carolina Tar Heels, showcases a
new, strategic basketball gameplay experience that challenges gamers to
replicate their school’s style of play and set the game tempo to win. NCAA
Basketball 09 features the EA SPORTS ESPN Classic Tournament of Legends and
Division I coaches in-game for the first time. Each coach will provide real time
instruction and feedback to help gamers control the tempo by executing their
team’s offense and defense to perfection.

Voting in the “Toughest Place to
Play” contest closes December 1. School’s voted in as finalists will receive a
visit from EA SPORTS this basketball season to judge their arena based upon a
number of factors. A panel of basketball experts will then determine the final
top 10 rankings and crown a winner. The rankings will appear in next year’s EA
SPORTS NCAA Basketball videogame.